EM Essential Training Day
Category: Training - Emergency Medicine Teaching Days
Date: April 8th 2014 9:00am until 5:00pm
Location: GWH, Swindon SN3 6BB
Severn Deanery ACCS EM Regional Training Day – April 8th 2014 09.00-17.00
Lecture Room 2, The Academy, Lower Ground Floor, Great Western Hospital, Swindon.
08.45-09.00 Coffee and Registration
09.00-09.45 Arthritis
Monoarthritis-differential diagnosis, investigation and treatment.
Emergency complications of common arthropathies.
Dr Will Tillett – Rheumatology Registrar, GWH.
09.45-10.30 Arteritis/Vasculitis
Lupus
Dr Will Tillett – Rheumatology Registrar, GWH.
10.30-10.45 COFFEE
10.45-11.30 Elderly falls
Investigation of falls and prevention. Complications of a ‘long lie’.
Fragility fractures
Common sites, detection and prevention.
Dr Samantha Burke – ED Consultant, GWH.
11.30-12.30 ‘Common and Life Threatening Rashes’
Measles, chicken pox, rubella, impetigo, herpes.
Necrotising fasciitis, pemphigus vulgaris, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, toxic
shock syndrome and staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome.
Dr Sam Gibbs- Consultant Dermatologist, GWH.
12.30-13.15 LUNCH
13.15-13.45 Practical session (2 groups) in Seminar Room 4 and Simulation Suite
Group 1: ‘ Xrays in Elderly Care’
(fragility fractures, pathological lesions, arthritis, Paget’s).
Dr Nick Ridley- Consultant Radiologist, GWH.
Group 2: Joint aspiration (focus on knee).
Dr Gareth Clark - ED Consultant, GWH.
13.45-14.15 Group 2: ‘ Xrays in Elderly Care’
(fragility fractures, pathological lesions, arthritis, Paget’s).
Dr Nick Ridley- Consultant Radiologist, GWH.
Group 1: Joint aspiration (focus on knee).
Dr Gareth Clark - ED Consultant, GWH.
14.15-17.00 OSCEs Simulation Suite
17.00 END
Writing in italics demonstrates ACCS curriculum.